Chozo

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Many psychoactive substances can affect your dreams. Usually when I have fully "sober" dreams, they're mundane and ordinary (in the dream, I'll wake up and go to work and talk to my coworkers and then go home), and I generally wouldn't remember too many details after I wake up. When I took SSRIs, I'd have wilder, more vivid dreams that I remember for years. When I smoke weed heavily, I'm unlikely to dream at all and will just kinda "time-travel" to waking up.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 30 points 2 months ago (6 children)

engaged to someone that appears to be a Magat

Where do you get this from? I'm not super caught-up with Taylor Swift's lore, but I know that Kelce is largely progressive, and has quietly supported Kamala.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No shit, Big Tech is going to kowtow to whoever is in charge.

Remove Apple's restrictions from the equation and just make it a PWA. This isn't the sort of app that needs to run natively on your device, anyway.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Consuming media is a great way to supplement your language-learning, but be careful not to confuse the dialog used in anime with actual conversational Japanese. Just like how nobody actually talks like a Western cartoon character does, Japanese people don't talk like anime characters. Anime dialog is largely dramatized.

Also for what it's worth; depending on what you're watching, the English dubs have gotten way better in recent years. There's a lot of good talent in the dub scene these days, and Japanese directors are getting better at trusting the performance of western voice actors, instead of demanding that the actor sounds the way they think it should sound in English. In my experience, most dubs post-2010 are generally pretty good. Generally.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I have no idea where you're spending time that you think most people here like AI...

He didn't say "here". The truth is, most people aren't against AI. Fediverse users are not an accurate representation of the public at large. Get out more.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago

Unless you like seminars about GNU, there's not really a lot of original media on the Fediverse that the average person would be interested in.

The Fediverse is a niche within a niche.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

One thing to keep in mind with body dysmorphia is that what you think about their body is unlikely to change how they feel about their body. Often times, dysmorphia doesn't stem from outside influences, and is an entirely internal struggle. Depending on what their dysmorphia is rooted in, showering them in praise may help them accept their body, or may compound their negative emotions ("I'm ugly and I'm dating an idiot").

You both have valid desires, but they're both at odds with each other. Honestly, I'd recommend a therapy session for the both of you. It would probably be beneficial to have a neutral third party involved in the conversation.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

That's an example of it specifically not working.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 2 months ago

I'm sure the dozens of YouTube Music users out there are thrilled.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 40 points 2 months ago (6 children)

If one day YT sets a "minimum requirements" page on their website to access their content, they've immediately ceded market share to the next upstart. Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, "smart TVs", and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they'll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.

This all incorrectly assumes that there exists any viable competition to switch to. YouTube ran at a net loss for over a decade to get the reach they currently have, only because Google was one of the very few companies who could feasibly afford to do so. Nobody else with the resources to compete with YouTube is willing to compete with YouTube, because of the massive cost required to get even a fraction of that user base, let alone a critical mass.

And most of the content people access YouTube for is only found on YouTube, so those hypothetical users aren't going to switch to a new platform, they're going to either just flat-out stop watching or will replace their devices.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 160 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Those are fantastic solutions if you don't want anybody to watch your content.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 14 points 2 months ago

You said it on live TV, jackass. We all saw and heard you.

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